A pond for Duck
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♥Feb. 1st, 2014 // 04:10 pm♥
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The pond in the stableyard is back again:
Jodie seems to not be inclined to put Duck in it, though. This is probably a good thing.
Duck has been joined by Bear, the unloved second child:
Bear is not remotely as interesting, possibly because of his failure to quack, and has hardly been touched since he came in and was unceremoniously dumped on the kitchen floor. (I did move him to her bed, mostly because he was in the way, but it's Duck that she comes and checks on when she's been outside. Then again, it was Duck that she left outside during a hail shower this morning, so Jodie's apparently not a terribly good mother.)
I worry slightly about how many other left-over stuffed toys she'll find in the shrubbery.
Today, she's been alternating between finding dens to lurk in, both with and without Duck, and bouncing around in circles with Too Much Energy. The only seriously unhappy-seeming moment was while we were riding, in the afore-mentioned hail shower, when I think she was a bit wet and cold. Right now, Jodie is behind the sofa, somewhere she's never previously bothered to explore. I suppose she's happy enough, but if she keeps staying in there then we might have to turn the radiator down a bit.
(Other than that bit of shower this morning, and another one just now when we were doing the boys--who've been in all day again, poor lads--it's been a lovely sunny day, perfect for a walk in the woods. Sigh. |
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A rare fish update
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♥Feb. 1st, 2014 // 10:13 pm♥
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We do still have the indoor fish, I just haven't mentioned them in quite a while.
They survived the move, and change of water ok. Given that I was thinking that we'd have to find a new home for them rather than put them through the stress of the move / change of water, this slightly surprising.
Currently, we have:
- one glowlight tetra (c September 2009, of ten. This is ludicrously old unless they're kept in perfect conditions, sayeth the interwebs)
- at least one male japonica shrimp (c October 2010. This is also quite ludicrous, given the change in the water) (at least one: for the last few months, we'd assumed that they were all dead, but then I saw one last night)
- one Burmese Danio (c October 2010, of eight ten) (probably. Might be a Celestial Pearl, as they're hiding a lot now there are so few of the tiny fish)
- one Celestial Pearl Danio (pre-September 2011 of five) (probably. Might be a Burmese, as they're hiding a lot now there are so few of the tiny fish)
- three White Cloud Mountain Minnows (I think, but I can't find any previous mention of them; I'd guess early 2012)
We've, I'm afraid, been kind of waiting for them to die, since we moved: the tank needs a good cleaning out, and so on, and then maybe we'd get around to starting again from scratch, although that was a nightmare so maybe we wouldn't. But I'm wondering if we shouldn't just buy a few more to get it properly stocked and keep going: I'd be horribly depressed if that bloody tetra was the last one in there and we had to put it down because there weren't enough fish to keep the filter going! |
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